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...Orleans hospital last week, Ashton Mouton and his wife Rosa looked down on one of the most satisfying sights of their lives: their twin daughters, two months old, asleep for the first time in separate cribs. Until last week, Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne had been pygopagus twins, joined at the lower ends of their spines...
...Shah and new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi to get him off the political stage. Resolutely he resisted the prosecutor, who came to interrogate him in preparation for a trial. "I refuse to be questioned by you or by anyone else," cried Mossadegh. Sometimes he simply pretended to fall asleep. He demanded to see a lawyer-to draw up his will. He wept in the old abundance, and once he cried, "Kill me now!" He wanted permission to see some old friends and henchmen, and when this demand was rejected, Mossy announced to the captain of the guard that he was going...
...protruding awkwardly from under a blanket as a litter jeep bounced down the road from the front. Or in the rain, as he climbed his first Korean hill, there was the glistening poncho stretched over the two men sleeping near the trail-and then he realized that they were asleep forever...
...basically as simple-and as wildly and lavishly dressed-as a small boy's own imagination. The boy of the story hates piano lessons but is kept at his practicing by his well-meaning mother and his music teacher, an evil, oily character named Dr. Terwilliker. Falling asleep at the keyboard, the boy is transported in a Technicolored dream to a fantastic castle in which Dr. Terwilliker keeps a mile-long two-decker piano. At this preposterous musical instrument the teacher plots and schemes to trap 500 boys ("Think of it! Five thousand fingers!") who have been dragged from...
Guestwork. In Kalamazoo, Mich., after police refused Harvey Bogema's plea to book him for drunkenness and give him shelter in the city jail, he came back three hours later, sneaked into an unlocked cell, fell asleep while smoking and set fire to the mattress, was sheltered in the county jail for the next 15 days...